The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office plans to lay off 126 workers in its headquarters in Alexandria, Virginia, by Dec. 9, according to a notice filed with the Virginia Department of Workforce Development and Advancement.

Workers at a Volkswagen plant in Tennessee who unionized last year will vote next week on whether to authorize a strike after talks for their first contract with the automaker broke down, the United Auto Worke... (more story)

The U.S. Supreme Court should review the Texas Supreme Court's decision to let a Southwest pilots union sue Boeing after a pair of plane crashes in the late 2010s, Boeing argued, claiming Texas' high court err... (more story)

A Kentucky state appeals court affirmed the dismissal of a suit over a coordinated sick day that closed public schools for a day in 2019, saying the parents challenging the action can't show that a teachers un... (more story)

The Trump administration has urged the full D.C. Circuit to keep in place a split panel's ruling that would allow mass layoffs at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, dismissing a union-led bid for full-c... (more story)

A Colorado county has filed a federal lawsuit against the state's governor and director of labor and employment, alleging a state statute that expands county employees' right to unionize unconstitutionally lim... (more story)

The federal government wrote in support of trustees of an International Association of Machinists pension fund in a dispute with employers at the U.S. Supreme Court, backing the union's argument that a pension... (more story)

An attorney who ignored a show cause order earlier this summer after his co-counsel included a fake case citation in a filing for their then-client, a former in-house attorney for Workday Inc., told a San Fran... (more story)

A free speech institute at Columbia University told a New York federal court Thursday that the Trump administration effectively denied its requests for information related to the government's demands that law ... (more story)

Washington University on Thursday defeated an Orthodox Jewish former employee's lawsuit claiming she was fired for complaining that her supervisor was interfering with her religious accommodations, with a Miss... (more story)

The Eleventh Circuit on Thursday upheld the dismissal of a former Florida police investigator's employment discrimination lawsuit, finding that he was provided some reasonable accommodations for his disability. 

A former paralegal is suing New Jersey-based personal injury firm Corradino & Papa LLC in federal court alleging that a name partner groped her at a holiday party last year and that the firm didn't investigate... (more story)

The Fifth Circuit breathed new life into a proposed class action claiming the U.S. Department of Defense unlawfully slow-walked civilian employees' requests for religious exemptions from its COVID-19 vaccinati... (more story)

Premier Healthcare has reached a deal with a former director to close his age discrimination suit claiming the company replaced him with a younger worker and failed to step in when a colleague wrote him off as a "boomer."

Contracts signed by proposed class members in a wage suit include arbitration and class-waiver provisions that reach a transportation company but do not extend to its president and founder, an Illinois federal... (more story)

Massachusetts' highest court ruled on Wednesday that a retention bonus contingent on an employee's willingness to meet certain conditions is not a salary subject to a provision of the state's Wage Act requirin... (more story)

Bank of America cheats business analysts of overtime wages by failing to pay them for the time they spent booting up and down their computers before, during and after their shifts, a worker alleged Thursday in... (more story)

A $3.5 million deal in a wage and hour suit against a student transportation company and related entities cannot move forward because the workers failed again to show that common issues predominate over indivi... (more story)

A $515,000 deal to settle a suit accusing Mitsubishi Electric Automotive America of only paying workers based on their scheduled shifts will go forward, an Ohio federal judge ruled, finding the settlement fair and reasonable.

A Seventh Circuit decision introducing yet another standard to certify collective actions deepens a split that the U.S. Supreme Court should address, Eli Lilly & Co. said, urging the justices to take up an age... (more story)

Amazon misclassifies its Flex program drivers as independent contractors, New Jersey Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin said in a suit, leading to millions of dollars in unpaid wages and benefits.